March 2012
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Business + Sustainability 101: The Ecological...
I’ve gone this far in the mini-series, Business + Sustainability 101, without explaining the ecological challenges, resource constraints, and pressing global changes that propel sustainability into the forefront of issues in our era. The series is a brief overview of the state of sustainability in business today, how it got there and why, and where it’s headed.
In part one, I described the Green...
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An Intrapreneur's Homage to the Sustainable...
Fred Keller, CEO of Cascade Engineering, featured prominently in the final article on my seven part GreenBiz.com series on social intrapreneurs, professionals leading social change at companies. He made a passionate argument that the green economy is well on its way that I wasn’t able to squeeze into the article. Today I bring you his fantastic quote:
“There’s evidence that we have this...
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Business + Sustainability 101: The Industry Titans
I remember reading Ecology of Commerce laying on the grass in front of my house when I was 17, awed by the possibility that business could actually be good for the environment. Exxon was still mired in a costly legal battle over the Valdez oil spill while Prince William Sound was mired in a clean-up effort. At the time the notion was radical: everybody knew that economics and environment mixed...
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“Drive to the Better Answer”: Dow-UM Collaboration
Today’s announcement of an unprecedented $10M collaboration between The Dow Chemical Company and the University of Michigan is exactly the type of next generation approach necessary to reach global sustainability. It is, as Dow CEO Andrew Liveris put succinctly, a “Drive to the better answer”.
Joined by University of Michigan (UM) President Mary Sue Coleman, the pair announced the collaboration...
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Business + Sustainability 101: The Green Company...
A few months ago a friend of mine asked where she could go to read a summary of sustainability in business. Not a small task. But I realized I really didn’t have any good resource to point her towards that would, in fairly short order, summarize the leaders, the state, the practices, and the future of sustainability in business. Today I begin the short series, Business + Sustainability 101.
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